"Surely I am not the now? Perhaps I am, though, in a certain way. Saying ‘now’ is not a speaking about something as an object, but it is surely a declaration about something…When I saw ‘now’ I do not mean the now as such, but in my now-saying I am transient. I am in motion in the understanding of now and, in a strict sense, I am really with that whereto the time is and wherefore I determine the time…Time is constantly there in such a way that in all our planning and precaution, in all our comportments and all the measures we take, we move in a silent discourse: now, not until, in former times, finally, at the time, before that, and so forth…"
Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology
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